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2008-05-28 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Global Warming is causing Forest Fires - Now that's Hot!

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-05-28 14:46|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Also a cause of Forest Fires - dumbass city folk who trek into the wilderness and can't keep a campsite.

Less water, lets see in a week when all this midwest rain drains into the Mississippi River. BTW, had to wear a jacket the last couple of days.

Animals affected by climate change, why thats for the birds! and bears and worms and my shedding cat.

Hey CO folks, hows that snowpack look? Rivers looked down to me because it hasn't been warm enough to melt the substantial amount of snow yet.

Posted by swksvolFF 2008-05-28 17:02|| 2008-05-28 17:02|| Front Page Top

#2 ...if my money is going into research for the WWF, they had better come up with something better than this, like the next Hacksaw Jim Duggon.

Posted by swksvolFF 2008-05-28 17:04|| 2008-05-28 17:04|| Front Page Top

#3 First of all, the total extent of Global Warming is, at most, 1.5 degrees since 1900. Not enough to set forests on fire. And that is a 1.5 degree AVERAGE over the course of the entire year.

Secondly, warmer temperatures mean WETTER weather because you have increased evaporation from the ocean. Wetter weather means more rain and less extensive fires.

Warm/Wet
Cool/Dry

Those are pretty much your choices with climate. This year is extremely cooler than last year was over most of the globe. There might indeed be fires this year, but not caused by increasing temperatures, but caused by less moisture in the air due to less ocean evaporation.

Posted by crosspatch 2008-05-28 17:36|| 2008-05-28 17:36|| Front Page Top

#4 Anthony C. Janetos, director of the Joint Global Change Research Institute of the University of Maryland and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, said the document aims to ~~find more grant money~~ and inform federal resource managers and dispel the public's perception that global warming will not be felt until years from now.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-05-28 17:51|| 2008-05-28 17:51|| Front Page Top

#5 The document concludes that Americans must face the fact that many of these changes are locked in even if the country takes significant steps to cut emissions in the coming decades.

Which is precisely THE reason NOT to do anything to reduce CO2 emissions since this would cripple our economy and leave us LESS capable of adapting to climate change (if it is occuring at all). In this case the MSM invoking the standard moonbat question: "What about the children?" leads to the very sensible reply that we want to leave our children as strong an economy as we have now so that they an adapt - not live in mud huts like the third world.

Posted by Ulaviger the Obscure8171 2008-05-28 21:05|| 2008-05-28 21:05|| Front Page Top

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